About Joseph
Ruane
Joseph Ruane was Professor at the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork, until 2010. During 2011–2016 he is Visiting Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. His research interests include theorising social and historical change; sociology of state- and nation-building; comparative colonial, ethnic, religious and centre–periphery relationships, and sociology of contemporary transition. Among his most important publications are The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland (1996) and Ethnicity and Religion: Intersections and Comparisons (2010).